Do it online

A crazy idea came up to me. Would it be possible to create a webpage with a nice javascript Editor which could directly compile FreePascal sources for all our beloved Amiga Platforms. The answer is certainly yes, I googled around to find a small package without too many nodejs, npm and such things, which always fails on my old server ;-). I found ACE which seems rather nice an easy to use. The rest is just some little php magic and of course the cross compilers, which I know already long time how to create and use and voila, ready to use webpage to create a simple (one file) Pascal application for all amiga platforms. I tried it on MorphOS, AROS and even native on an Amiga 600 with Vampire using iBrowse. Of course in iBrowse the editor does not work. I included a special page with a simple HTML textarea for such old browsers.

The compilation speed is much faster as a native compilation.

On MorphOS it runs much better of course the MorphOS OWB is even capable to show the editor, very nice.

It’s a little bit slow because it’s recorded via VNC, in reality it feels rather fast.

AROS was a little bit of disappointment for me. I downloaded the latest Icaros 2.2 especially to test this webpage. But sadly the editor does not show up. No Error message shown. I guess it’s some missing font problem, because when I change the theme the background color changes, only the text is not visible. It’s a pity. I had to switch to the old Browser interface which works nicely but I expected more.